Application Architect

Role Summary

The Application Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise application architecture to support business capabilities, digital initiatives, and target architectural goals. This role encompasses architecture guidance for application modernization, solution design, and rationalization across the application portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and update application portfolio documentation, architecture views, reference models, and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Evaluate applications for suitability, technical debt, redundancy, integration links, and alignment with business functions.
• Define the target application architecture and recommend rationalization approaches along with transition plans.
• Examine solution designs, architecture documentation, and non-functional requirements for adherence to enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including solution, data, infrastructure, security, and integration to ensure integrated design coherence.
• Maintain traceability between business capabilities, workflows, applications, data elements, interfaces, and technical components.
• Provide architectural support for application modernization, cloud migration, package evaluation, and associated initiatives.
• Participate in governance activities including design reviews, exception management, standards enforcement, and EA repository maintenance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 5 years' experience in application or solution architecture, systems analysis and design, or application portfolio management.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• TOGAF certification is mandatory or highly preferred; additional certifications like ArchiMate, cloud architecture, integration, or ITIL are beneficial.

Technical Skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of application architecture patterns, API-centered integration, service-oriented architecture, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in TOGAF and ArchiMate application-layer modeling with capability to produce practical architecture views.
• Experience evaluating application health, identifying technical debt, and proposing rationalization strategies.
• Understanding of cloud technologies, security, data, and integration factors relevant to enterprise solutions.
• Strong skills in stakeholder engagement, analysis, documentation, and review of designs.

Additional Information

• Language skills: Good command of Business English; Arabic language skills are a plus.

Key Deliverables

• Application portfolio assessments including lifecycle and health status.
• Defined current and future state application architecture views.
• Reference architectures, standards, and guiding design principles for applications.
• Roadmaps for application rationalization and modernization.
• Traceability mapping among applications, business capabilities, data, and integrations.